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Another Muggy Day

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This album really *tried* to push the bound-aries of post-rock, experimentalism, but I really put the *'s areound "Tried" for it's "*great food*"
Look, Mr Muggy is a band with an average amount of potential but a Boat Load of spirit, which leads to memorable, yet discountable tracks like "Another Muggy Day." Although henceforth yet hitherto, they have embodied the persona of MAD_B's Lesbiana before MAD_B even existed. I call it the Creme de La Creme (if you you know what I mean)
The angular guitars and fuzzy vocals remind me of kareoke - but good kareoke. The problem with good kareoke is that it's terrible compared to normal music.
2 stars

I got this from my fiance' about a year and a half ago which he got from someone and he never listened to it, he was going to throw it away, but gave it to me instead, and it the record company was a no name record company, which are my favorites usually, but this time I was dissapointed. As much as I love girl singers even in the background, the backup girl sounded more like she was at a karaoke party. She has a cute voice in her own way, but by no means should she have any business in the recording studio.

"Take it Slow" is, you guessed it, a slowish love song. A light acoustic guitar riff opens the tune. Mike Muggy not only has a distinctive higher-range voice, but he knows how to use it. Muggy takes the lead but allows the backing vocals to help create texture and dynamics as the song builds momentum. This clean and crisp power ballad will delight fans of this genre.

Mike Muggy, the lead vocalist for his band, Mr. Muggy, snarls his way through this sludgy six-string hammer fest. Sounding a bit like Eric Bloom (Blue Oyster Cult), Muggy and friends offer up this bit of bombastic power rock.

Coming across as a heavy coffeehouse acoustic rock band with touches of Sap-era Alice in Chains and vocalist who reminds me of Stanley from Life, Sex & Death (remember them?), Mr. Muggy is actually a quite enjoyable romp through a musical style I generally don't explore too often. Thankfully, Mr. Muggy avoids much of the trappings that would befall a lesser outfit. While having a hippie record cover motif and even a song about hippies (mysteriously entitled "Hippie"), the music doesn't lower itself to safe, sterile middle class white folk boredom that it easily could. Rather, the Muggsters sprinkle a good chunk of honest emotion and enough distortion to satisfy a rock fan. There are slower, folk-ish songs on the album, such as "Take it Slow" or "Still Here Waiting", but - especially on the latter - they are lush and full realizations of the songs. The singer Muggz is very capable of expressing himself rather emotionally without becoming patronizing and it shows throughout the disc. Another Muggy Day is a nice change of pace from much of the doom/death metal circulating in my player these days. If you've ever truly enjoyed Alice in Chains doing their acoustic thing or have an interest in heavy coffeehouse rock, Mr. Muggy is well worth checking out.